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Korean golden time login event?
So are we ever going to get this event?
heroes.nexon.com/promotion/golden/passI REAAAALLY want the outfit they reward after 30 days of logging in but our golden time event seems to have nothing but random consumables?
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Having it as a reward isn't fair to those who would be willing to spend money to get it, and deprives them of the chance to have an exclusive outfit that they can wear to show their support for the game.
To be honest, it's kind of selfish that you all want it for free. Free things take away from the experience of an MMO, you should work for what you have, not wait for things to be handed to you.
I guess you're not participating in the attendance then huh :-/
Having it for free wouldn't be bad, but then again if it was it wouldn't have the limited stats so then I can't wear it on my main +sad.
Anyways anyone want to translate the entire event for me +joy?
Plus, having a new cycle of directors can make or break an MMO, as in the case for Soul of the Ultimate Nation dying because many players were forced to start over from scratch when EP 2 came, and the 2nd elite set took months to grind and CAN fail + blow up trying to Plus it to 1, and even FAIL at crafting. How's that for insult to injury?
You should keep as mind as well that most customers don't complain, they just walk away.
What does "Gitting Gud" have to do with an attendance event ? If I "Git Gud" then will my character on the NA server somehow get the outfit that's only available on the KR server ?
Also, complaining about bad service doesn't mean that I think the world revolves around me. It just means that I think I'm getting poor value for money.
If you go to McDonalds & order a meal & they give you the drink & the burger, but no fries, then will you just quietly go away without complaining because you think the world doesn't revolve around you ?
Players have the right to express their dissatisfaction because a company can take that feedback to improve their services. If a player complains about failing an enchant scroll, it is probably because they spent quite a bit of their money on runes and if you think about it, $9 per rune is pricey especially if it adds up.
1. Attendance style event, where you can get the rewards as long as you login that day
2. Dont hold the event and dont have the golden time events in any other events
Somehow they decided to choose option 2...
Regarding competition in KR : This is partly true, but its not really because nexon KR has more competitors, its that the KR industry as a whole is more competitive. Because their market size is so small, MMOs even compete with each other based on cyber cafe player numbers and there is a huge focus on profitability at the expense of all else. Vindi's director has done so much dumb and is apparently really infamous in Korea, but he makes a lot of money for nexon so he gets to stay as director.
Vindi outside of korea has plenty of competitors as well. Just look at the countless players who quit vindi for games like BDO, Tera and Blade and Soul. The difference is that the market outside of korea is a lot larger, so theres a lot less pressure and the Nexon branches arent tracking things as closely as KR is. Nexon NA probably has not the slightest clue how many players they lost to BDO within 6 months of its launch, but if it was nexon KR, they would probably be watching BDO like a hawk and would have some idea.
If you look at the market size for korea, china, and any other asian region, they have a much smaller market size than english MMOs due to the language thing. The market size for korea is basically korean speaking gamers in korea. Thats a ton smaller than english speakers in NA/EU combined. No surprise that asian regions feel the need to focus more on events than NA/EU does. They are not feeling the pressure.
You want to know when a business is really under pressure? When they start lowering prices permanently (not just through temporary sales). Thats usually a last resort. Businesses hate lowering prices beacuse they know that if they increase it afterwards, customers will throw a fit.
If you think KR MMO publishers are going to let language be a barrier in the Asian market, especially in a massive one like China, you're +drunk. China has a ridiculously large economy, and because of things like most youths living at home until they get married, sometimes even after, it means that there's often disposable income up for grabs that might not be otherwise. China's spending on superfluous goods is way too sizeable to ignore them. It's the same for other regions. If they translate into English, and even French, you'd better believe they're taking the time to do so for China. Where you ever got the idea that a gaming heavy region has a smaller market size than the west I don't know, but I promise you that Arena Net didn't tout up their expansion into China because they thought it would only trickle in a few dollars more. Even Korea is a vast market because of how they spend their money and time.
Secondly, we've already seen that scramble from Nexon. They didn't start in with all these constant NX giveaways, events, and sales until everything fell apart after the Launcher fiasco and the continued optimization issues. Players left en masse for that, as well as for the release of games like BDO and BnS, which unfortunately for Nexon happened to come out just as Nexon began to stick it to players as hard as it ever had with "Whale Sales" labeled as events, their failed integrated Nexon Launcher--something that still isn't force in KR--and their mods here on the forums telling players who could only play through direct launch that they'd be banned for using it once the work around was found.
Keep in mind, this is the same Nexon NA that went completely silent over on the Dragon's Nest forums for months, not even doing the kindness of informing players what was going on. When it comes to their actions, they're inconsistent at best, but we've definitely seen them go into a full panic trying to keep the remaining players here.
Compare that market size to "english speakers around the world" for most other MMOs. Tera doesnt feel the pinch from a competitor like BDO as much because their market size is a lot larger than it is for a korean company competiting with another korean company for korean speaking gamers in korea.
The events and such arent necessarilly a response to increased competition from games like BDO. It may be an ATTEMPT at such, but if it is, it is very ineffective as it doesnt address the reason why people were quitting for other games in the first place. Its more likely the result of a (relatively) new CEO trying to put into place reforms (such as reforming the support system, the average response time to ticket has now dropped to 3 working days as opposed to once in 6 months) or managers trying to boost their department earnings for the quarter to look good.
Basically its like the difference between mcdonalds having some kind of promotion (like sending peope coupons in the mail) vs doing a huge revamp of their coffee to make it not suck (which they did in Australia a while back). The latter is a direct attempt at fighting competition. The former is more likely an attempt to just boost short term profits to make their quarterly earnings look good to shareholders.